On 2012-10-09 10:02, dexen deVries wrote: > GNU make's manual states, ``This [[removal of target on error]] is > almost always what you want `make' to do
I'm don't think GNU Make has ever correctly predicted what I want `make' to do. Besides that, I think there could be problems if you have an existing file and run mk to update it and instead it just deletes the one you have.